[PaulHoule]

Halfway decent systems "just work".

Back in the 1990s my wife worked at the ag school and they had a moment of panic when they realized they had no idea where the web server was. Turned out they had a tiny little HP PA/RISC machine in a closet covered in dust bunnies that had been running for two years without anybody thinking about it.

Last night I wanted to create a webhook and decided to use AWS Lambda. I have a few things in AWS including Lambda functions. I figured I'd look at my old ones as a reference for my new one, but I was shocked to realize I had things that had been running for five years without any intervention at all.

In both of my cases you have middling software and negligent management but the underlying hardware or services are reliable and high quality. It's not like the entrepreneur I knew who was always finding web hosting that was a lot cheaper than anyone else with the downside that every few months we had to move to another data center in a hurry.